Numbers 15:10-20

10 Also give an offering of two quarts of wine. It is an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to the LORD.

11 Do this for each bull, each ram, and each sheep or goat.

12 Do it for each animal, however many you sacrifice.

13 All native-born Israelites must do it this way when they bring an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to the LORD.

14 "Suppose foreigners are visiting you or living among you in future generations. If they bring an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to the LORD, they must do as you do.

15 There is one law for the whole assembly: for you and foreigners who are living with you. It is a permanent law for future generations. As far as the LORD is concerned, you and foreigners are the same.

16 The instructions and rules are the same for you as well as foreigners who are living with you."

17 The LORD said to Moses,

18 "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land where I'm taking you

19 and eat any of the food from the land, give some of it as a contribution to the LORD.

20 Shape one part of your dough into a ring the same way you do with the contribution you make from the threshing floor.

Numbers 15:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 15

In this chapter the children of Israel are instructed about the meat offerings and drink offerings, and the quantities of them, which were always to go along with their burnt offerings and peace offerings they should offer when they came into the land of Canaan, Nu 15:1-12; and they are told that the same laws and ordinances would be binding equally on them that were of the country, and on the strangers in it, Nu 15:13-16; and an order is given them to offer a cake of the first dough for an heave offering, Nu 15:17-21; and they are directed what sacrifices to offer for sins of ignorance, both of the congregation and particular persons, Nu 14:22-29; but as for presumptuous sinners, they were to be cut off, Nu 14:30,31; and an instance is recorded of stoning a sabbath breaker, Nu 14:32-36; and the chapter is concluded with a law for wearing fringes on the borders of their garments, the use of which is expressed, Nu 14:35-41.